Dinner and a Movie: A Celebration of Howard Zinn's Life

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7pm Dinner: Delicious vegan meal, including a chocolate fountain....?

8pm Movie: The People Speak

The People Speak (2009) is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States - first published in 1980 and one of the bestselling history books in the U.S. - and Voices of a People's History of the United States.

The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestoes) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past--and present--including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. These dramatic moments from our history are brought to life by a group of remarkable musicians and actors.

Like Howard Zinn's work as a whole, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation's rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.

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$5 suggested donation.